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1 - The Dark Council     The dark council had been established by an ancient coalition of high-elves as the last line of defense against whatever evils might threaten elf kind. The council chamber had been built inside the largest amethyst crystal ever recovered from the cavernous dwarven mines. It took the bloodlines of all six of the elven noble   houses to open the sacred portal and once inside none could leave without a unanimous decision being reached. The dark council had convened so infrequently that no living elf had yet been born when last the crystal had been opened, and elves are notoriously long lived. So it was with great reluct